Re: adding NIC to Qube2- performance better?

Mike Hebel <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.cobalt
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Dec 3, 2008, at 5:21 PM 12/3/08, Brian McEwen wrote:

>
> Hi all;
>
> Would you expect that I could see better network performance from  
> my Qube2 if I put a NIC in my lonely expansion slot?
> If so, which chipset?
>
> I have a USB card in there now, but I never use it.
>
> I though I would be making use of the wonderful new install CDs, at  
> least the latest 4.0, over the holidays-- but I had too many  
> distractions.
>
> Thanks for thoughts-

That's a very good question - would a gigbit card work well?  I would  
think that the CPU and pci bus would be the bottleneck in this case  
but I honestly don't know.
--
Mike Hebel


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